The Map

[milkyroute]

Ok, first step to creating the story : create the beta version of the map. I haven't proofread the legend, so sorry if there are mistakes in it; I've been working on this for way too long. Also some descriptions are still a little vague since I have sometimes struggled to find inspiration.

This provisional map is open to criticism and any new idea of places is welcomed. When it will be validated I will think the story with this as a base, but I will surely add or change some things if I think it's more convenient for the story.

Obviously the appearance is not really nice but I'm really bad at design :p
Legend :
Circles : Cities and Towns

• Red : The ones with a "gym leader" (the equivalent)
  (Also it's provisional, we can add or remove some depending on what we want to do)
  Lines : Routes
• Orange : Land routes
• Blue : Aquatic routes
• Green highlighting : Natural zones (Large areas where exploration is the goal, not like forests in Pokemon where you just go from point A to point B, there are a lot of ways to go, people to meet, places to discover, and obviously OpMons to capture)

Legend

Towns and Cities

French name first, then English name.

1. Faubourg Euvi / Euvi Town - The little starting town.
2. Euville / Euvi City - A little but active city, next to the coast. Bug type leader.
3. Gwinniad / Dario City - An old fortified city, with old unused fortifications. Very touristic, has a marina.
4. Ansillian / Olist Town - An ancient town where people still live the old-fashioned way.
5. Lavrant-sur-Mer / Rotser City - A big port city with an commercial harbor. Also has a port-industrial zone and big buildings in the city, like the headquarters of the big company of the region.
6. Brivant / Wolrot Town - A little town with a micro-climate making the weather sunny almost everyday. There is a solar farm next to it. Fire type leader.
7. Moriana / Sanluce Town - A town split in half, with a little marina and a beach with stores and restaurants next to the sea, and the real village higher in the hills.
8. Magarrand / Magrant Town - A medieval town with very narrow streets and stone houses.
9. Bonnirave / Limine City - A city over big limestone cliffs. There is several little beaches and secret places accessible through galeries under the city. Rock type leader.
10. Poivriel / Fishalt City - A city famous for its fishing industry. Fishermans of all over the region come here to have some good times and the city often organizes fishing contests.
11. Méralia / Irrine City - A city between mountain and ocean. Has an iron mine and a cargo harbor to export what it produces, with a funicular to make the link between the two. Steel type leader.
12. Hallérie / Hallernic Town - A very little town high in the mountains, constantly under the snow. Has an observatory, and the source of the Mourner river.
13. Marlon / Caliami City - The big touristic beach resort of the region. Warm climate, big beaches, hotels everywhere.
14. Louttrawa / Otwer City - Largest city of the region, with big skyscrapers, next to the lake. Electric type leader.
15. Louisal / Missi Town - Town made of wooden houses on stilts over the swamp.
16. Pinegorne / Norwood Town - A town isolated from the rest of the region by a dark forest. Almost lives in autarky. The houses are all made of wood from the forest. Dark type leader.
17. Brine / Bleeze City - City at the middle of plains, very calm, natural and windy. Flying / Grass type leader.
18. Cambourg / Ausber City - Another beach resort but smaller and very popular with surfers. Also there is a part of the town that is over the water, on stilts. Water type leader.
19. Chalières / Skywood Town - This town is mainly a network of numerous tree-houses built on the trees of the high tropical trees of the region.
20. Port-Victoire / Vicport City - An old industrial port now used by the most powerful trainers of the region for training before challenging the Victory Isles and the league.
21. Port-aux-Flocons / Icagon Town - The only town of the northern island, very cold, it's always snowing. Ice type leader.

Natural spaces

1. Forêt d'Euvi / Euvi Forest - A temperate rainforest full of bugs.
2. Forêt de Clairvol / Bright Forest - A forest full of light and wonderful creatures.
3. Collines d'Arivio / Arivio Hills - Soft hills between rocky hills and the ocean. There is some trees but they don't fill the whole place.
4. Falaises d'Arivio / Arivio Cliffs - Very windy plains on big cliffs over the ocean. We can find a lot of birds here.
5. Mont Mélodie / Melody Mount - A high moutain with eternal snow at the top. Its name comes from the sound of the wind at the top that sounds like a melody.
6. Forêt Spectrale / Spectral Forest - A dark forest where ghost OpMons hide. And not only ghost OpMons but also people that want society to forget about them... for good or bad reasons.
7. Forêt Tropicale / Tropical Forest - A dense tropical forest where it is hard to progress.
8. Golfe de la Pleureuse / Mourner Bay - A large bay in which the Mourner river ends up its course. Popular with surfers and contains underwater ruins.
9. Lac de la Pleureuse / Mourner Lake - A lake just below the Melody Mount where the Mourner river flows. Contains an island in the middle.
10. Terres Glacées / Frozen Land - A huge frozen land where it is difficult to progress with the blizzard, the ice and the snow. It is rumored to have some secrets hidden there.
11. Grotte d'Electrac / Elecshake Cave - A whole network of galeries and tunnels under the hills, filled with static electricity. Also contains underwater galeries and a subterranean lake.

• Îles de la Victoire / Victory Islands - A little archipel at the east of the greatest island which the most powerful trainers of the region have to overcome to reach the OpMon League.

Roads

1 - A road between plains and beach.
2 & 3 - Roads next to the Bright Forest, with a nice climate all year long.
4 - Road going through wild plains.
5 - A road next to big windy cliffs.
6 - A road going through little hills.
7 - A road descending from the Elecshake Cave
8 - A road going through the Arivio Hills.
9 - The main aquatic route between the two major islands of the archipelago. Very populated and full of animation.
10 - A road almost exclusively on the beach. A lot of fishermans are there next to Fishalt City, and a lot of tourists are there next to Caliami City.
11 - A long straight two-in-one road, with a cycling road made of asphalt next to a cobblestone road for pedestrians.
12 - Another road on the beach, except the Missi Town side which starts to be marshy. A lot of tourists are also present on this road.
13 - A road trough the deep swamp, difficult to progress. Leaves the swamp near Inset City for a more peaceful terrain.
14 - A calm road through a peaceful plain.
15 - A road on a tropical beach after quitting the swamp, with palm trees and other tropical plants. A lot of surfers are on this road.
16 - A road going through the dense tropical forest.
17 - A road built of numerous bridges on the high trees of the forest, like Skywood Town.
18 - A labyrinthic road made of narrow ways in the tall grass, leading to the Spectral Forest.
19 - A road going through the swamp and running alongside the Mourner river.
20 - A cobblestone road going through the swamp and over the river, firstly running alongside the lake. After the swamp it goes through tall grass that the player can explore aside the cobblestone road. It leads to the Spectral Forest.
21 - A rocky road going around the Melody Mount, with rails to transport industrial goods from Irrine City to Otwa City.
22 - A little road with a cliff and an elevator to go up to route 21.
23 - Same as 21 but the south is made of big cliffs over the water, where caves allow to go down on the sand.
24 - The longest road of the region, running along big cliffs where sometime caves allow the player to go down and explore the coast. There is a lot of turns in the road. After the entrance to the Spectral Forest, the road turns into a rocky road leading to the Mourner lake.
25 - A rocky road that can be only taken from south to north to go down from the Melody Mount.
26 - A road that runs alongside the Mourner river, up to its source, in Hallernic Town. Goes through caves in the Melody Mount, where the river flows.
27 - An aquatic route where a lot of fishermans practice.
28 - An aquatic route leading to the intersection with routes 29 and 30 where the shipwreck of an industrial ship can be found.
29, 30 - Arbitrary aquatic routes between the two major islands, where more people and things in general can be found than in the open sea.
31 & 32 - Aquatic route used by tourism boats used to make the link between the two major islands.
33 - An aquatic route leading to the northern island. Has a lot of ice and icebergs.
34 - An aquatic route leading to the Victory Islands, full of powerful trainers.
35 - A peaceful road linking Euvi Town to Euvi City.
36 - A cobblestone road linking the brand new Euvi Bridge to Dario City.
37 & 38 - Two aquatic roads in the peaceful Euvi Sea where a lot of novice swimmers can be found.

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Current comments from the Discord server

• Some remarks: a Méroux is a real animal, and there's no real animal in Pokémon. So I would suggest using the same rule in OpMon. (EDIT : Fixed -> changed to the Mourner river / La Pleureuse. This new name will have a story linked to it.)
• Also Minger is an insult in english. (EDIT : Fixed, c.f previous edit)
• Though that's a LOT of stuff. Not even Jotho+Kanto has as many stuff. (Delayed : let’s at least finish the first island and then we’ll see how much work it’ll be)
• Normal type is not very intuitive for a first leader. (Agreed, will be changed)